RSA 2018, New Orleans

Members of the CORPI project participate in the Renaissance Society of America, annual meeting 2018, at New Orleans.

PANEL: Prophetism and the New World in Early Modern History III

Thu, March 22, 2:00 to 3:30pm, Hilton Riverside Complex, Kabacoff Room

Organizers: Marco Volpato (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) and Victor Couto Tiribás (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)

Respondant: Mercedes García-Arenal (ILC, CSIC)

With: Carlos Cañete (ILC, CSIC), "Ancestral Futures: New Worlds, Human Origins, and Millenarianism in the Seventeenth Century"

and Eduardo Fernández Guerrero (European University Institute) "A New Revelation for a New World: Prophecy and Theology between Global Empires".

PANEL: Understanding Islam through Judaism in Renaissance Iberia and Beyond

Fri, March 23, 2:00 to 3:30pm, Hilton Riverside, 3rd Level - Canal Room

Organizer: Yonatan Glazer-Eytan (Johns Hopkins University) / Chair:  Miriam Bodian (UNiversity of Texas Austin) / Respondant: Mercedes García-Arenal (ILC, CSIC)

With: Davide Scoto, "A Universalist Conversion Program: The Overlapping of Judaism and Islam in Hernando de Talavera's Evangelization Strategy"

Katarzyna K. Starczewska (ILC, CSIC), "The Role of Hebrew in Learning Arabic"

and Yonatan Glazer-Eytan, "The Jew, the Morisco: Sacrilege and Minorities in Early Modern Spain"

PANEL: Voices of Dissent in Early Modern Spain

Thu, March 22, 11:00am to 12:30pm, Hilton Riverside Complex, Quarter Deck Room B

Organizer: Miriam Bodian / Chair: Felipe Pereda (Harvard University)

With: Mercedes García-Arenal, "Reading Against the Grain: Christian Books Read by Forced Converts",

Miriam Bodian, "Iberian Inquisitors in the Face of Changing Sensibilities"

and James Amelang (UAM), "Private Voices: The Daily Life of Dissent in Early Modern Spain"